On 03/03/2012 10:53 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Andrew Benton wrote: >> Hello, >> On the python2 page it says to use a sed: >> sed -i "s/ndbm_libs = \[\]/ndbm_libs = ['gdbm', 'gdbm_compat']/" setup.py >> >> and the command explanation is: >> This command is used to fix a build problem with the GDBM library. >> >> If I compile python-2.7.2 twice, once with the sed and once without and >> pipe the output to log files, diff can find no difference between the 2 >> log files. It would seem that the sed has no effect. Does anyone know >> why it was added to the book? What was this enigmatic "build problem"? > That was added 3 years ago and replaced a patch that did something > similar. (Rev 7767) (python-2.6.1). It may not be needed any more. About the time of replacing BerkelyDB in LFS with GDBM for man-db?
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